AT&T TO OFFER NET-CAPABLE CELLULAR PHONE SERVICE.Byline For the use of the term in football (soccer), see Byline (soccer). The byline on a newspaper or magazine article gives the name, and often the position, of the writer of the article. : John Markoff
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Aiming to make it easier to connect wirelessly to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , AT&T's cellular company said Thursday Thursday: see week. it plans to introduce a new portable phone service for sending and receiving data over existing cellular networks. Using network software that the United States' other large cellular companies also plan to adopt, AT&T Wireless Services said the new service, to be introduced late this year, will require that customers obtain a new $500 cellular telephone capable of integrating voice and Internet services. The new service, which is to be called AT&T Pocketnet, will enable users to display data on the phone's small three-line, liquid-crystal display screen for sending and receiving e-mail and other information. Besides some standard Internet services, the AT&T service is to include interactive data applications that would permit, for example, a user to look up flight information and then automatically place a cellular phone call to complete a reservation. AT&T is hoping that the new digital cellular service will finally permit wireless data applications to reach broader markets. Until now, analog cellular telephone systems have provided poor quality for data transmission. AT&T Wireless executives said that the service would cost about $30 a month above the cost of standard analog cellular voice service. |
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